The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 35, sentence 102

In the reign of Haroun-al-Raschid, there lived in Bagdad a merchant named Ali Cogia, who, having neither wife nor child, contented himself with the modest profits produced by his trade.

Who acts: Ali, Merchant · What happens: live, name, have, content, produce, trade · To what, where: merchant, reign, wife, modest profits

This is a sentence of «The Arabian Nights Entertainments» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 35. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Ali, Merchant), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

Parsed by Mova, not checked by a teacher. This tree is Mova's own parse (the en model, on the CPU, when the site is built); it may be wrong.

The tree

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	In	in	ADP	_	3 reign	case
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 reign	det
3	reign	reign	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 lived	obl
4	of	of	ADP	_	5 Haroun	case
5	Haroun	Haroun	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 reign	nmod
6	-	-	PUNCT	_	7 al	punct
7	al	Al	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 Haroun	flat
8	-	-	PUNCT	_	9 Raschid	punct
9	Raschid	Raschid	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 Haroun	conj
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 reign	punct
11	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	12 lived	expl
12	lived	live	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
13	in	in	ADP	_	14 Bagdad	case
14	Bagdad	Bagdad	PROPN	Number=Sing	12 lived	obl
15	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	16 merchant	det
16	merchant	merchant	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 lived	obj
17	named	name	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	16 merchant	acl
18	Ali	Ali	PROPN	Number=Sing	17 named	xcomp
19	Cogia	Cogia	PROPN	Number=Sing	18 Ali	flat
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 having	punct
21	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	23 having	nsubj
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 having	punct
23	having	have	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	18 Ali	acl:relcl
24	neither	neither	DET	PronType=Neg	25 wife	det
25	wife	wife	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 having	obj
26	nor	nor	CCONJ	Polarity=Neg	27 child	cc
27	child	child	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 wife	conj
28	,	,	PUNCT	_	29 contented	punct
29	contented	content	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 lived	conj
30	himself	himself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	29 contented	obj
31	with	with	ADP	_	34 profits	case
32	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	34 profits	det
33	modest	modest	ADJ	Degree=Pos	34 profits	amod
34	profits	profit	NOUN	Number=Plur	29 contented	obl
35	produced	produce	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	34 profits	acl
36	by	by	ADP	_	38 trade	case
37	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	38 trade	nmod:poss
38	trade	trade	NOUN	Number=Sing	35 produced	obl
39	.	.	PUNCT	_	12 lived	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	live	past		a merchant	the reign of Haroun and Raschid; there	in Bagdad	vn lodge-46 «NP V ADV»: agent=Theme merchant=Location
2	name	participle		a merchant not said here			vn appoint-29.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
3	have	gerund	Ali	neither wife nor child			vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent wife=Patient
4	content	past		Merchant		with the modest profits	vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus himself=Experiencer
5	produce	participle		the modest profits not said here		by Merchant's trade	vn create-26.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
6	trade		Merchant				nom trade «act transitive»: poss=agent

One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.

Text: «The Arabian Nights Entertainments» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 128 (public domain in the USA). Tree: Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.

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